ghostlypastelcarnival: can someone calmly and as politely as possible (meaning without treating me like an idiot) explain to me why people say “could you not…

Anti-kin in 2006: LOLOL otherkin and fictionkin are delusional! They really believe they’re anime characters with magical abilities to shoot lightning out their butt! They’re…

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thoughtfullygeneralwonderland: your bodies dont feel foreign until you delude yourself into believing youre a fictional character fromfiction: that’s an incorrect assertion. thoughtfullygeneralwonderland: explain why fromfiction:…

Having a body that doesn’t match that of your kinself/kintype is a normal otherkin and fictionkin experience. Its practically a requirement. It is of the…

It is perfectly legitimate to be kin of someone whose body, mind and/or life experiences are different than yours. Kin do not chose their kintype/kinself.…

do you think it’s possible for a fickin to be a mixture between reincarnated, and psychological/coping? I feel most of mine were past lives and i have memories for a good few of them, but they still, at least sort of, affect me psychologically/help me cope with mental illness by giving me more of a sense of self and something to relate to, even if i didn’t choose them. do you think that’s possible?

Many, many reincarnated/spiritual kin rely on aspects of their kinself for comfort and strength. Drawing on your identity as kin to help you cope with…

two of my mutuals that i considered friends are against white people IDing outside their race (one being a poc that regularly asks others to suggest them new kintypes and the other being a white person) and it makes me excruciatingly paranoid and afraid to the point i made a separate fickin blog to talk about my kins, but i really want to figure out a way to either dissuade them from the racism notion or at least ease my anxiety, do you have any suggestions?

You could tell them that its almost certain that the concept of ‘not IDing outside your race’ was thought up by someone white pretending to be…

What are fictionkin? Fictionkin; (noun): A person who discovers that they have in some way inherited the soul/spirit/complete mentality of a fictional character, and the…

The idea that fictionkin are somehow ‘violating copyright law’ has been making me laugh for nearly a decade. Seriously, i made a bunch of *livejournal* icons…

(part 1) The otherkin community has interested me for a long time and I admit that in the beginning I did not understand it and had some less than nice thoughts about it simply because of that, but now I’ve read up on it, especially here on your blog, and I have found that I can relate? A lot? This is all very confusing to me, but I think several experiences I haven’t understood earlier might be signs that I’m fictionkin. I have identified with a character for a long time and I thought that

(Part 2) it was only to the level everyone gets, but after reading your posts I’m starting to see that might not be it. I…

Why do people say “there’s no such thing as otherkin”? That’s a little like saying ‘there’s no such thing as pagans” or “there’s no such thing as communists.”…